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PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 27, 2026

DevSecOps From Laptop to Production: A Practical Security Pipeline Guide

How software travels from a developer’s editor to a live server – and where security checks sit along the way. Every tool…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 19, 2026

RAG Poisoning in 2026: A Practical Playbook for Hacking Answers Through Your Knowledge Base

Your support bot knows the refund policy. Your internal copilot cites the employee handbook. Your sales assistant pulls answers from a folder…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · August 10, 2026

Software Supply Chain Security in 2026: Packages, Pipelines, and Provenance

Most teams still treat supply chain security like a compliance checkbox: generate an SBOM once a quarter, turn on Dependabot, call it…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 27, 2026

How I Would Hack Your Startup in 24 Hours (Real-World Pentest Guide)

Give me your company name and 24 hours. That is usually all it takes to go from knowing nothing about a startup…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 19, 2026

Web Cache Poisoning in 2026: A Practical Playbook (One Request, Every Victim)

Most web bugs hit one victim at a time. Web cache poisoning is different, and that is exactly why it is worth…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 15, 2026

LLM Red Teaming in 2026: A Practical garak + PyRIT Workflow

You shipped an LLM feature. A support chatbot, a “summarize this document” button, an agent that can call tools. Now the obvious…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 14, 2026

Indirect Prompt Injection in 2026: Hacking AI Through the Content It Reads

Most people picture prompt injection as someone typing “ignore your instructions” into a chatbot. That is the direct kind, and it is…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 13, 2026

Hacking GraphQL APIs in 2026: Introspection, BOLA, and Batching Attacks

GraphQL is a gift to attackers. One endpoint, usually /graphql, that speaks a typed, self-describing language and will happily tell you every…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 12, 2026

Actively Exploited CVEs in June 2026: A Practical Patch-Now Briefing (SimpleHelp, Citrix, ColdFusion, Defender)

June 2026 was a brutal month for anyone who runs internet-facing infrastructure. A run of critical, actively-exploited vulnerabilities landed one after another,…

PIYUSH KUMAWAT · July 10, 2026

IDOR Hunting in 2026: A Practical Playbook for Finding Broken Access Control

IDOR is the bug that pays rent for a lot of bug bounty hunters, and it is still the one developers ship…